oh my - what happened to life….

What a whirl-wind day.  I am still not entirely sure what happened - but here’s a run-down!!!!

1:30am

- woke up to a wet bed.  No - I am not suddenly incontinent - my milk was overflowing from my HUGE gargantuous ‘melons’!  Thanks-goodness for breast pump - work it baby - I am such a cow (in the nicest way of course!)

- make enough noise to wake the dead - apparently not enough Murphy.  She can sleep through a hurricane, cyclone and tidal wave all at once!

- fed, burped, changed and put M3 back to sleep!

5:00am

- Wilbur gets up and goes to work

- M’s 1 and 2 lovingly decide it is time to wake up, AND get up!

- wake M3 for feed, burp and change - throw her back into bed (obviously not literally!)

Between 5:45am and 8:30am

- fold washing

- breakfast for M’s 1 and 2 - oh - and me!

- label lunch boxes, bags and spare change of clothes for the big M’s (ha ha!) in preparation for their first day at new Pre-School

- pack two somewhat nourishing lunches for aforesaid M’s! MAke mental note to self to remind teachers that M2 will eat all food in front of her at morning tea - so they MUST ration her - or it’ll all be gone by lunch time!

- wash breakfast dishes

- dress big M’s and myself (after agonising about the lack of anything to wear on my elephant-like body!)

8:30am

- wake, feed, burp, change, clean-up poo and wee, change and cuddle M3.  Technically she should be fine and happy till around 11:00am - well - that’s the plan anyway!

9:30am

-pack car with what looks like enough stuff togo on a four-day holiday (if only!). Pram (gotta love my brand-spanking new red Phil&Teds), nappy bag, M’s school bags etc.  There’s enough stuff to sink a small ship!

9:45am

-finally get out the door, fumble with buckling in three children into the back of the car!  Another mental note to self - buy winning tatslotto ticket so I can have bigger car!

9:55am

- leave big M’s at new Pre-school.  they are happy and content.  Breathe deeply!  Oh - and smile happily!

10:10am

- fruit and veg shopping - Murphy is happily enconsed in the wrap on my chest (love that thing - site is down - so can’t get picture!)

- off to Aldi - store is choc-a-bloc with people - Murphy decides it is time to wake up - and is letting everyone know about it!!!!

10:45am

- finally get to local shopping centre where I can sit down and feed her. (after I struggle in the car park with pram - coz I forgot how to unfold the thing! Oh - did I mention it was raining as well!) She struggles a little coz there is so much milk in my b.o.o.b.i.e.s that they are rock hard, and my finger virtually bounces off them!

11:45am

- into Coles, Murphy not happy - again - now she is vying for the coveted title of ‘Loudest newborn cry’.  Get through checkout, and rush home.

12:30pm

- sit and quietly feed M3, burp, change and bed - same old same old - surely I have done this a few times already today!

12:35pm

- feel and hear amazing noises coming from my stomach - must be time to eat……..

12:37pm

- get sidetracked with washing - discover that thrip 9horrid little tiny annoying insects that like the ‘whites’ hanging on the washing), have attacked absolutely EVERY white item )ie - EVERY nappy that I own) that was on the line yesterday.  Need to rewash, dry and fold it all again - AND it is raining.  Thank goodness for dryer!!!!!  Bugger bugger bugger!

1:00pm

- realise that I haven’t put the groceries away (surely not a hard thing to miss really - I mean - after all - they ARE strewn all OVER the bench!)

1:03pm

- rumble rumble rumble - ahhh - must feed my stomach ASAP!

1:04pm - 3:30pm

- eat and do stuff that I technically should just leave so I can have a rest - but NO - silly me - I keep on going!!!!

3:30pm

- wake Murphy, feed, change, burp (feels like Groundhog Day!!)

- chuck Murphy on bed, and snap a billion photos of her looking yummy!  Mental note - must get photos off camera ASAP (another mental note - don’t just make mental notes - coz I forget them - make sure I make a paper note next time!)

4:15pm

- pick up big M’s from Pre-School.  They had a fabulous day!

4:30pm - 7:15pm

- a bit of a blur really - but lets give it a try……

- snack for big M’s, organise dinner, Will gets home, break-up minor scuffle with big M’s over who sits where on couch, and other stuff, fold first load of nappies, eat dinner, dishes (Wilbur was a great help here too!), bathe and bed big M’s, fall in heap on couch.

7:30pm - 9:00pm

- wake Murphy AGAIN for a feed, burp and change (let;s just call that an FBC shall we!)

- try valiantly to keep her awake for longer than 10 sucks on the b.o.o.b.i.e. - not successful!

- throw her in bed, and listen to her snuffle!

- fold next load of nappies

9:30pm

- fall into bed

- 9:31pm

- sleep…………………..

Okay - so really- yes - that was my day in a nutshell.  Is that how it’s going to be forever.  I certainly hope not.  But you know what.  I feel strangely good about it.  As of I am accomplishing something (other than going around the twist!). I am a happy, busy, (albeit exhausted) mum of three children, and wife of the best husband in the world.  All is good.